Mr. Thomas F. Millard, editor of the "China Press," has sent us a copy of a letter addressed to Dr. Gilbert Reid in which he says.
"IT have noticed in the aewspapers that T was among these elected to the Advisory Committee of the International Institute, on its Inst meeting. I had not known that my name was to be posed, or I would have explained that always have refused to be directly connected with any public institutions that might" quality "editorial occasion arise to criticise them." I therefore request that' you accept, my resignation as. member of the Committee. The and objects of the International Institute approval and sympathy, and I hope to be able from time to time to be of assistance in furthering its objects."
Wo have received a copy of a letter to the same effect from Mr. George Bronson Rea, proprietor of thb "Far Eastern Review," and a copy of a letter written by Dr. Gilbert Reid to Mr. Thomas Millard, in which Dr. Reid says:
1 regret that your name wan added to the Institute's. "Avisory Council, without te viously securing your consent. The fut i my own, and not that of th Executive Committee. The list of additions to our Advisory Council was only one sha tha. Mr. Geo. Bronsoa Reo, amped tow here before our meting, of duty was in your
Independent es opinion into for whic lease accept my ay
wise hampered by connexion with the International Institute, and I trast that publicity given to your name as included in the Institute's list of Advisory officers will not embsraas you too much, for this is'far-from my desire."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.